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> Why spend the money and invest now for the future, when you can lean on people to donate their efforts in times of crisis? First, no one said anything about
by abeyer 7y ago
> Why spend the money and invest now for the future, when you can lean on people to donate their efforts in times of crisis?
First, no one said anything about donating effort...the scenario was getting paid a decent, if not quite FAANG, salary to work on an older tech stack. And sure, you _could_ take that approach. We tried it with pandemic preparation, let's see how that works out.
- cultus 7y agoIt's really not sustainable or realistic to rely on altruism. Taking a huge pay cut to work on awful systems nobody wants to deal with exceeds how much nearly anyone is willing to help. Just giving a frigging UBI for at least the duration of this crisis would solve all of these problems and work much better.